How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 American drama film set in Wales, directed by John Ford. The film, based on the best-selling 1939 novel of the same name by Richard Llewellyn, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and scripted by Philip Dunne. The Morgan family, settled in a Welsh mining village, raises the sons to be coal-miners, but hopes for the youngest son, Huw, to find a better life.